Restrictions on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and incentives for fruit and vegetable (FV) purchases are recommended as policy options for Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) to promote healthy food consumption among low-income Americans in the United States. This mixed methods...

The increasing availability of retail scanner data makes it possible to study consumer demand at more disaggregated levels than ever before. This paper derives the asymptotic properties for a tractable iterated three stage least squares (I3SLS) estimator and applies it to estimate a quadratic...

The objective of this paper is to explore the theoretical implications of a meat demand model with rational habits. To introduce consumption dynamics, habit persistence is used to motivate intertemporally related preferences. The impact of food safety information on meat consumption is...

Understanding consumer response to food safety information is important for quantifying consumer response to food safety events, predicting market impacts, and developing appropriate risk communication strategies. In this study, we present a methodology for analysis of consumer response to media...

To better understand how information about potential health hazards influences food demand, this case study examines consumers’ responses to newspaper articles on avian influenza, informally referred to as bird flu. The focus here is on the response to bird flu information in Italy as news...

This study identifies how key economic and demographic variables affect U.S. households' expenditures on snacks.

Fresh vegetables, including asparagus, are now available in months outside of the domestic growing season for most U.S. consumers. We use the virtual price method to calculate the equivalent variation for increased availability in a demand system for fresh and frozen vegetables and find that...

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